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UEL

Submitted by jayendiran on

I have written a UEL subroutine in fortran for 3D structural element, If i give displacement in Z direction i am able to get the reaction force. if  i give external load in -Z direction and +Z is constrained,  i am able to get the displcement in -Z direction  but it shows the reaction force as zero in +Z surface.Please help me in tis regard how to give load in abaqus input file

Thanks

Jay

material model for glass machining

Submitted by farzad pashmforoush on

Hello every body

I am working on the simulation of micromachining of “glass” in abaqus.
Although the glass is brittle, it shows some plasticity in micromachining
because of the high hydrostatic pressure field present in the machining region.
Now I am looking for an appropriate material model for glass with
elasto-plastic behavior which allows element deletion. I am not sure if "johnson-Holmquist damage model" is suitable for machining simualtion or not? I would be very thankful
if anyone would please help me.

With best regards

Farzad

history of science

Submitted by Catalin I. Pruncu on
Romania
 
This country is indeed placed at the crossroad of Central Europe (Mittel Europa).
Transylvania (Brasov, Timisoara) was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The
Kingdom of Romania was created in 1859, and became independent of the
Ottoman Empire in 1877. Present day Romania is a sovereign country of nearly
20 millions of inhabitants. Somewhat as a gross simplification, we could say that it
is a ‘‘Danubian’’ country with a Latin language, which is surrounded by countries

sad news for mechanician. Departure of HD Bui, member of french academy of science

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

Unfortunately, HD Bui, 76, passed away yesterday evening. An elegant, dedicated, very discreet but bright mind, HD Bui made a long career at Ecole Polytechnique and EDF, making important contributions in fracture mechanics and inverse engineering.  Lately, he returned to work on his interesting contributions on the Cheops pyramid and the spiralling internal structure.

He was considered the most prominent vietnamese scientist in France, of 400 000 living there.

Crack thickness

Submitted by Konstantin Volokh on

Macroscopic
cracks do not appear as a result of an ideal separation of two adjacent atomic
layers. Just the opposite, cracks appear as a result of the development of
multiple micro-cracks triggered by the massive breakage of atomic bonds. The microcracking
and the bond breakage are not confined to two neighbor atomic planes: the
process involves thousands atomic planes within the representative characteristic
volume of size h. This size defines the width (not the lenth) of the damage
localization zone and it can be called the crack thickness. The knowledge of